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Take Control of Security for Mac Users

Prevent — or recover from — illicit access to your Mac and its data.

Do credit card fraud, hacking, identity theft, and online shopping and banking risks concern you? How about the dangers of malware, phishing, and Wi-Fi sniffing when you use your Mac? You are not alone — these dangers top the lists of security concerns in many surveys. But you needn’t unplug to stay secure, no more than you should barricade yourself in your home to keep from being mugged. Instead, you can take common sense precautions to reduce the risks and avoid the harm that could befall you, your Mac, and your data.

Take Control of Security for Mac Users is a calm, friendly look at the topic, designed to help you determine your risk level (from 1-4) and provide sensible recommendations for increasing your security without causing undue inconvenience.

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In particular, you’ll find help with:

Determining your risk level (from 1-4)

Implementing essential quick security fixes

Identifying and avoiding phishing attempts

Controlling access to your Mac via a firewall

Managing local access to your data with sensible user accounts

Sharing Mac resources like screens and files safely

Securing your home network and working securely on someone else’s network

Protecting your Mac’s data from snoops and thieves with FileVault

Sharing/transferring encrypted files

Keeping your iCloud data (such as email and photos!) safe

Preventing data theft with encrypted disk images, files, and folders

Deleting data securely to prevent unexpected leaks

Deciding whether to use anti-malware software

Improving passwords to block unauthorized access

Perhaps most important, you’ll also find advice about what to do if something bad happens, with suggestions about how to recover from data loss, a malware or phishing attack, a network intrusion, or identity theft.

Take Control publisher Joe Kissell has written more than 60 books about technology, including many popular Take Control books. He also runs Interesting Thing of the Day and is a contributing editor of TidBITS and a senior contributor to Macworld.

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